Thursday, October 2, 2008

Poor man's tractor!






We got our tractor today, and we're stoked, this thing looks like it will till the land up like crazy. After a lot of research and thinking we decided not to get a 4 wheel tractor because they are a lot pricier, they compact the soil and they aren't as versatile for a farm the size of ours (5 acres). So we got a BCS 853 with an 11 hp Lombardini diesel motor from Joel at Earthtool. It has a PTO and can spin a whole bunch of different implements. These tractors are commonly used all over Europe for small-scale agriculture. For breaking up new land that has waist high hay and grass growing on it, and that hasn't been tilled in over a year, we will use the Berta rotary plow (shown above). Check out this video of the Berta plow at work. We'll post again once we start using it.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice ride!!